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Coll 30/52(1) 'Persian Gulf. Diaries: Bahrain News and Intelligence Reports' [115r] (231/1077)
The record is made up of 1 file (535 folios). It was created in 8 Sep 1933-21 Feb 1941. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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135. foreign Intereata
7874
1938
(1) ter* f . W* Thornburgh, Vice President of the
Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited, left on the 2nd
November 1938.
(ii) Kr. C. ft. Deacon, late Resident Manager, The
Bahrain Petroleum Company Limited, also left on the 2nd
November 1938.
136. Irmi&l ^QEgt
(i) Reference pars raph 129 (a) of Intelligence
Summary No. 19.
The Majlis, under the Presijentahip of Shaikh
Said, held meetings to discuss the question of levy of
customs duty, and they have unanimously agreed that a
duty of 2 per cent be charged on all imports, and that
there should be no charge on exports. The 1 ajlis decided
that the levy of duty et this rate should take effect
from 24th November 1938 (1st dhswwal 1357), and that a
Committee of Merchants should be appointed to make a
Customs tariff for the period of one year.
(11) On the 18th October, when a boy named Abbud bin
Salih, originally from ais, aged about 12 years, © resi
dent of Sharjah, was going to fetch water from a well about
2 miles from Sharjah, three bedouins attacked and kidnapped
him.
The ?uler of Sharjah sent out a party to pursue
the kidnappers. They have not yet returned.
137 • kfisal ''•ffalra
deference paragraph 128 (b) of Intelligence Summary
No. 19.
Agitation still continues in a somewhat confused
form. The reforms in the Chera Court have given satisfac
tion to the Shies, but malcontents in the towns have made
use of an incipient youth movement. Some arrests ware
\ «*de on the 5th November and on the following day there
was a partial strike organised in the Bahrain Petroleum
Company’s premises, and a crowd of young men made a demons
tration in Manamah bazaar. They were dispersed by the
Police without difficulty and normal conditions were rapidly
resumed. A memorandum of demands or - more accurately -
suggestions has now been received from certain self-styled
leaders (one of whom wishes to withdraw hia signature while
another denies any knowledge of or interest in the memo-
randuml) and is under examination.
138. Caudi Arabia
Nothing to report.
139 . M&StMsuaQMiaMX
Maxima* temperature .. 88 . 8 ° on the 8 th and 9 th Tfcv ember
r inimum temperature .. 64.9° on the 15th November
Humidity exceeded 70% on thirteen days.
Sd/- H. Weightman.
Bahrain, 17th November 1938.
distribution as usual.
Political Agent
A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency.
, Bahrain.
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The file contains fortnightly intelligence summaries produced by the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. at Bahrain for the years 1933-40. The reports, marked as secret, were sent to the Government of India, the India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. , and numerous British diplomatic, political, and military offices in the Middle East. There are occasional hand-written comments in the margins of the reports.
The reports are divided into short sections that relate to a particular subject. Contained within the file is intelligence on the following topics:
- Shipping
- The movements of British and Foreign subjects, and Arab notables
- Local affairs of Bahrain, as well as regional news from Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Trucial Coast A name used by Britain from the nineteenth century to 1971 to refer to the present-day United Arab Emirates. , and the wider Middle East
- Economic matters and food supplies
- Bahrain Petroleum Company and other matters related to the oil industry
- Transport accidents
- The Bahrain ruling family
- Tensions between Abu Dhabi and Dubai
- The pearl trade
- Workers' strikes in Bahrain
- Local crime
- The slave trade
- Regional boundary disputes
- The impact of the beginning of the Second World War in Bahrain and local reaction to events in the war
- Weather and meteorological data.
A photograph of Charles Belgrave and the French Naval Officer, Contre Amiral Rivet is contained on folio 388. It was taken when the French Sloop Bougainville visited Bahrain on 14-16 February 1935.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (535 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 537; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 3-537; these numbers are also written in pencil, but are not circled.
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- front, front-i, 2r:3v, 3ar:3av, 4r:387v, 389r:537r, back-i, back
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